I am seeing more and more women in consultation in my office with deflation of their saline breast implants. In fact, twice this month we had women who presented with the development of pain around their breast implant with an associated distortion of the breast shape secondary to breast implant valve failure. It has been my experience that the development…
I have found an increasing number of women who present to my office in consultation who had saline breast implants placed ten years ago and who are now requesting removal and replacement of their mammary implants for highly cohesive silicone gel mammary prosthesis. Often these women underwent reduction mammoplasty with an implant to maintain upper pole fullness, but now want…
I have been using the Keller Funnel routinely for my periareolar and transaxillary breast augmentation cases. The Keller Funnel allows me to deliver larger implants through a smaller incision without traumatizing the breast implant, the skin, or having the breast implant come into contact with the skin. I believe strongly that this “no touch technique delivery system” can help reduce…
We are starting to see many patients come from out of state to have their revision augmentation procedures or capsulectomy surgeries performed at the Roxbury Clinic & Surgery Center in Newport Beach. I have been using the Strattice in the manner as taught to me by Neal Handel, M.D. When working through small incisions, I have found the use of…
Capsular contracture occurs when the lining around a breast implant contracts aggressively. When capsules are not removed in their entirety on the anterior surface of the breast, then the breast can not expand or splay out over the new implant in its entirety. Occasionally, in the re-operative or revision breast surgery patient implants can become infected and need to be…
Having great interest in Breast Reconstruction, Aesthetic Breast, and Revision Breast surgery has afforded me ample opportunity to study the manipulation of the infra-mammary fold and its relation to the perception of breast symmetry. Two determinants of breast symmetry in photographs or when the patient looks in the mirror is the position of the nipple areola complex (NAC) and the…
Synmastia occurs when a breast implant begins to cross the midline towards the sternum. This is often upsetting to the patient and is often even more accentuated when wearing a bra or low cut shirt. Correction of synmastia can be challenging for both the patient and surgeon. Appropriate steps in synmastia correction require accurate diagnosis of the problem. Synmastia can…
Capsular contracture surgery involves removing the breast capsule that has formed over many years and then place a new breast implant of similar or different dimensions or size. Typically recovery from capsular contracture surgery can be quicker than the recovery from the original breast augmentation procedure. The goal of capsular contracture surgery is to remove the painful capsular contracture and…
Breast reduction surgery is a common surgery. Patients who wish to undergo breast reduction surgery typically mention that they have pain in their neck and shoulders as well as their lower back. Occasionally when patients have large breasts, they have rashes in their breast creases. After breast reduction surgery, not only are the breasts lighter and is pain relieved, but…
Mastopexy augmentation and revision mastopexy augmentation are some of the more common operations performed in our Newport Beach office. We frequently see patients who have had implants placed several years ago and who have now lost weight or who have had several children. The result is a breast shape that has become ptotic as well as a loss of volume.…
